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Description
20" (51 cm.) Standing upon a velvet-covered wooden
box is a bisque-head doll with large blue glass
paperweight inset eyes,dark
eyeliner,lushly-painted lashes and brows,accented
nostrils,closed mouth with outlined lips,pierced
ears,blonde mohair wig over cork pate,carton torso
and legs,wire upper arms,bisque forearms. When
wound,music plays and she turns her head from side
to side,pausing while she fans herself,then
nodding,and then lifting her flowers up and down
to sniff their fragrance. Condition: generally
excellent,mechanism and music function well.
Marks: 4 (head) LB (metal key). Comments: Leopold
Lambert,circa 1890,with original costume from the
luxury studio workshops of his wife,Eugenie
Lambert. Value Points: superb original condition
of the beautiful child,with original
finely-detailed accessories,and charming movements
and music.